I am an EFL teacher at Burggymnasium, Essen, Germany (http://www.burggymnasium.de) and currently reading Jay Asher's "Thirteen reasons why" with my year 9 English students. This blog offers them the opportunity to post comments and (art)work relating to the novel. Winkler.

24 March 2011

Reason # 2 - cassette 1: side B

Name of the person: Alex StandallWhat did he do to Hannah? Alex wrote a list, "Freshman class - who's hot / who's not" (p 40 l 11), and voted Hannah "hot" and "Best ass in the freshman class". This gave another boy an excuse to grab Hannah's butt (p 46 l 28). Hannah does not tell the name of the boy, but he is decribed as rather violent and intimidating ("... he grabbed my wrist and spun me around. He said my name, and when I looked into his eyes the joking was gone. I yanked my arm, but his grip was tight." p 48 ll 22-26) and Clay recognizes him because of Hannah's description ("I know who Hannah's talking about now. I've seen his wrist-grabbing stunt before. It always makes me want to grab him by the shirt and push him until he lets the girl go. But instead, every time, I pretend not to notice. What could I do, anyway?" p 49 ll 1-5).
In the "NOT hot" column of his list, Alex Standall wrote the name of Jessica Davis. Hannah indicates that this had consequences ("You wrote Jessica's name in the Not column. You held Jessica up for ridicule. And that's where our snowball picks up speed. Jessica, my dear ... you're next." p 51 ll 12-15).

42 comments:

BlakeW
said...

I think he hasn't thought about the consequences before he started the list, maybe he was bored. But however it was wrong of him comparing the body parts of girls! It's sort of looking down on female persons?!

I think the second reason emphasize the blurb of the novel, that no one knows how much impact they have on the lives of other people(Hannah's own words).

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